Adjustable support for sectional bookcases.



UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIoF.

ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT FOR SECTIONAL BOOKCASES- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 18, 1907;

Application filed December 26, 1906. Serial No. 349,525.

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that I, FRED W. TOBEY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and 7 adjustable supports for sectional bookcases,

and its object is to provide means whereby, when such cases are placed in series end to end, the supports may be so adjusted that a single support will be partially beneath the adjacent ends of each section, and when a single section is standing alone, the supports may be adjusted wholly beneath the same and to provide the device with various new and useful features, hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1. is a front elevation of sectional bookcases placed end to end and with my device applied thereto; Fig. 2. an end elevation of the same Fig. 3. an inverted plan view of the same, and Fig. 4. an enlarged detail of one of the plates to which the supports are attached.

Like numbers refer to like parts in all of the the figures.

1, 1 represent two sectional bookcases or otherlike articles arranged end to end. Each section is provided with four legs, one at each respective corner. The rear legs 2 are shown fixed in the usual way.

My invention is shown in the front legs, which are made laterally adjustable so that they may be placed wholly under one corner, as in the position shown at the outer ends of these sections, or shifted to bring one of the front legs partially under each section and centrally beneath the abutting vertical surfaces of such sections, whereby when viewed from the front, a row of single legs will be shown, thus improving the appearance of the cases when adjusted end to end. The other front leg adjacent to the one so adjusted can be placed in the rear thereof, out of sight,

and also partially beneath each section, if so desired, as illustrated in Fig. 3. To provide for these adjustments these legs 3 instead of being immovably attached to the case, or section, are attached to a plate 4 preferably made of sheet metal and of the form illustrated in Fig. 4. the same being substantially L-shape in outline, one arm of the same being provided with a slot or elongated opening 6 through which a suitable fastening 5, (preferably a screw) is inserted and extends into the bottom of the case, being so located as to permit of the described adjustments of these legs beneath the case. The other arm of this plate is perforated for screws 7, which screws (not shown) are inserted in the upper end of the leg 3 to securely attach the same to the plate. I am thus able to adjust the leg 3 wholly beneath one corner of the case to which it may be attached, when the end of thecase is exposed, or by moving the plate longitudinally of the slot 6, can project the leg partially beneath an adjacent section, as shown at the middle of Figs. 1 and 3, and by moving the corresponding leg on the adjacent section to the rear and turning the same about the vertical axis of the fastening 5 as upon a pivot, can bring said leg directly to the rear of the one at the front thus placing the rearwardly adjusted leg out of sight, and presenting but one leg at the front beneath the adjacent abutting ends of the sections.

Obviously any number of sections may thus be arranged end to end with but a single leg showing between the abutting adjacent ends of the sections and the legs under the exposed ends adjusted wholly beneath the corners of the sections thus presenting a symmetrical appearance to the entire structure when thus assembled and arranged. It will also be noted that the front legs are easily detached as occasion may require, or remaln permanently attached to the respective sections. 1

What I claim is:

1. In combination with a bookcase section, a'leg therefor carried by a plate having a slot at one side of the leg, and means passed through the slot for movably securing the plate to the bottom of the section.

2. In combination with a bookcase section, a leg therefor carried by a plate having a slot at one side of the leg, and means passed through the slot for movably securing the i the case, and a leg rigidly attached to the plate to the bottom of the section, the plate other arm of the plate. 10

aving pivotal and lateral movement on said In testimony whereof I aflix my signature means. 7 in presence of two witnesses. 5 3. In combination with a bookcase section, FRED W. TOBEY.

an L-shaped plate having a slot in one arm, a Witnesses: fastening extended through the slot and ad- L. V. MOULTON,

justably securing the plate to the bottom of GEORGIANA CHAoE. 

